need recommendations for simple sample-and-hold sampler

Thanks. I found Legowelt right after posting here. Definitely lots of cool sounds there.

I don’t really know what I’m going for yet. Everything I make right now sounds really flat and cheesy and derivative. Part of the “fun” of learning a new instrument.

i have a very dumb question and i'm only really expecting general answers to this, not specific to my gear. i have the aforementioned stand-alone electribe sampler. i assume that there is a way to connect it to my computer and use it with recording software in a way where it will "record" all the sample tracks separately so i can further manipulate them in the software. assuming this is correct, is this done via MIDI still, like in olden times? or is there another function/setting i should be looking at to make this work?

i have never been able to do make the sampler connect with reason essentials beyond just recording the audio directly. i just managed to make some kind of MIDI connection where the sampler was almost working as a controller for the in-software drum machine, but that's as far as i've gotten so far. i'm just trying to figure out if this is where i should keep investigating or if it might be a software issue since i don't think this is really what reason essentials is intended for.